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Canada - Quebec Province

Quebec, Canada - is comprised of 17 regions and is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area. Québec's first inhabitants were the Inuit Indians (Amerindian), the stone age people who migrated from Asia thousands of years ago, before the continents drifted apart. The Vikings visited the area around 1000 AD. They were followed by the Basque whalers and cod fishermen who where some of the early visitors to the shores of Québec's St. Lawrence Gulf. The French explorer, Jacques Cartier, landed his ship, the Gaspé, in 1534. He had been commissioned by François I, the King of France, to lay claim to this vast territory.

Still Imagery includes:
1. Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park (1998) -- is a National Marine Conservation Area, one of three in the Canadian national park system, located where the fjord of the Saguenay River meets the estuary of the Saint Lawrence River. It is the first national park in Québec to protect a purely marine environment.
2. Saguenay National Park (1983) - stretches along the shoreline of the Saguenay Fjord between the cities of Saguenay and Tadoussac. It aims to protect the terrestrial environment of the fjord, which is considered an outstanding and representative of the natural region of the Saguenay Fjord.
3. Saguenay Fjord - The fjord extends around 62 mi./100 km, which makes it one of the longest fjords in the world. Its width varies from er width from .6 to 2 mi. (1 to 3.2 km), and the fjord is surrounded by steep rock faces reaching average heights of 492 ft./150 m. Cape Trinite stands > 1,348 ft./411 m and Cape Eternite reaches over 1500 ft./457 m.
4. Parc National des Grands Jardins (Great Gardens National Park) - is one of the core areas of the UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve of Charlevoix. Part of the park is covered with taiga vegetation type usually found only in Northern Quebec.
5. Parc National des Hautes Gorges de la Rivière Malbaie (High Gorges of the Malbaie River National Park) - a provincial park in the Charlevoix region. Centering on the Malbaie River Gorge, it is the centerpiece of the UNESCO Charlevoix Biosphere Reserve. The park lies within the Eastern forest-boreal or tiaga (a biome characterized by coniferous forests localized in subarctic zones), transition ecoregion. Tthis park is represented by a deep valley in the high mountains which has steep walls of over 2,297 ft/700 m high.
6. Laurentain Mountains - a mountain range in southern Quebec, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of 3,825 ft./1,166 metres (3,825m) at Mont Raoul Blanchard, north east of Quebec City
7. Basilica of Sainte Anne de Beaupre - The basilica in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré was initially a shrine to honour Saint Anne. It was built for two reasons: to provide a place of worship for the new settlers in the area and to house a miraculous statue of St. Anne. In 1876, the first basilica opened for worship. The first basilica was destroyed in a 1922 fire. The present-day basilica was built on the site of the prior church in 1926.
8. Baie Saint Paul - a city on the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the confluence with the Gouffre River. The city is the seat of Charlevoix Regional County Municipality.
9. Chute Montmorency (Montmorency Falls) - the highest (275 ft./ 84 m) waterfalls in the province of Quebec, which is also 150 ft./46 m wide It is fed by the Montmorency River.9. Parc Régional de la Rivière du Nord (River of the North Regional Park) - located near the town of Saint-Jérôme
10. Québec City - is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal. he narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River approximate to the city's promontory, Cap-Diamant (Cape Diamond), and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided the name given to the city, Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning "where the river narrows". Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only remaining fortified city walls that still exist in the Americas north of Mexico, and were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Québec".

Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park - here at the confluence of the Saguenay River with the St. Lawrence River - known as the Saguenay Graben (a rift valley depressed block of land bordered by parallel faults, resulting in a valley), at the ferry crossing to the town of Tadoussac - Quebec province